Viewing blogs by tag: creativity
An attitude of gratitude
Guest Contributor | 1st November 2024
What do you have to be grateful for? Seems like an odd question, right? But science has shown that practicing gratitude regularly has several well-being benefits. Whether you practice gratitude when you need a quick pick-me-up, when you can’t get yourself motivated, or when you just want to take stock of what you are grateful for, practicing gratit
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Step back to move forward
Elizabeth Feltoe | 17th September 2021
Earlier this week the Phase team went on retreat. We took two days out to spend time learning together, reflecting and thinking, and hanging out together as a group of friends and colleagues. It’s different from your standard team away day in that we didn’t once talk about KPIs, our vision for work, improvements we could make to our services, or wh
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Being Part of the Phase Team...
Hannah Dengate | 17th January 2019
You are meant to thrive, not just survive. On Monday 3rd September 2018 I started working for a charity based in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, called Phase as their Wellbeing Lead. Before this I was in Christchurch, Dorset working as a Youth Worker for a Baptist church, whilst also studying on the MA Course at Moorlands Bible College. Why move 163 miles
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Creativity
Helen Bainbridge | 1st June 2018
When did you last do something really creative? What activities help you use your imagination? What does creativity mean to you? I think creativity can sometimes feel a bit exclusive - like you're either a creative person, or you're not. Maybe you can't identify with the artist or the potter getting their hands dirty and creating something from no
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June Wellbeing Challenge 2018
Sasha Austin-Seade | 1st June 2018
Welcome to June, This month is all about creativity. Now I know some of you if you are rolling your eyes and thinking oh no 😱 I hate drawing whilst others of you are jumping for joy. This month your challenge is an art challenge, but you have a few options. Remember the wellbeing challenges are all about challenging and stretching ourselves. We m
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Wellbeing challenge - word of the day
Helen Bainbridge | 27th April 2018
Velitation. Frugivorous. Grok. Panchreston. Neatnik. Just a few of the new words the team have come across this month. Don't test us what they mean, though! It's been good fun finding out new (and often pretty obscure) words to add to our vocabulary, even if we've only remembered a couple. But what does that have to do with wellbeing? There's actu
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Getting creative
Bethany Murray | 25th February 2016
Phase's newest project 'Creative Space' has been launched and is under way. We've had 7 students attend the sessions so far with some great cretaive work produced, good conversations had and a relaxed, chatty, fun, supportive atmosphere created. In Tuesday's session we spoke about March 1st next week being Self-harm Awareness day. Some of our creat
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